The 703-pound, battery-powered Huygens probe parachuted through Titan's clouds of methane and ... A special lamp illuminated the probe's landing spot to help determine the surface composition.

The images were taken last January by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it parachuted to a soft landing on Saturn's moon Titan, three-quarters of a billion miles away. As the 700-pound ...

That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent from ... a major breakthrough in our exploration of Titan as well as the first soft landing on an outer-planet moon," Linda Spilker, Cassini ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

and from that get an idea of the velocity of the Huygens probe as it went through the Titan atmosphere and how it changed with altitude, for example, and with shifting winds. It's just amazing at ...

The Huygens project—named for Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who in 1655 discovered Titan—is something of a pioneer back on Earth too. It is Europe’s farthest stab by far into the universe.

On January 14, the European Huygens probe detached from Cassini and touched down on the surface of Titan, beaming back images of a frozen methane world. (Full story) ...

"We conclude that Titan's uniquely rich organic inventory may not in fact be available to play the role in the moon's habitability to the extent one might intuitively think." ...

Scientists have also found other mountains near the landing area where the Huygens probe touched down on Titan in 2005 after Cassini arrived in the planetary system. Learning more about the moon's ...

The study sought to develop a realistic scenario of what life on Titan might look like if it does exist, where it is most ...

It turns out that the moon of Saturn has certain advantages for future space colonists not present on the moon or Mars.